About Harris Yulin
Harris Bart Goldberg (November 5, 1937 – June 10, 2025), known professionally as Harris Yulin, was an American actor who appeared in over a hundred film and television series roles including Night Moves (1975), St. Ives (1976), Scarface (1983), Ghostbusters II (1989), Clear and Present Danger (1994), Looking for Richard (1996), Bean (1997), The Hurricane (1999), Training Day (2001), Ozark (2017–2018) and Frasier, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1996. == Early life and education == Yulin was born in Los Angeles on November 5, 1937. Abandoned at an orphanage as an infant, he was adopted by dentist Isaac Goldberg and his wife Sylvia when he was four months old, and given the name Harris Bart Goldberg. When he began a performing career, he took the stage surname "Yulin" from his adoptive father's extended Russian Jewish family. Yulin attended the University of Southern California, but did not graduate. He enlisted in the United States Army for a year and then moved to Florence, Italy, where he tried working as a painter, saying in 2000 he was "extremely bad at it." In 1962, he was living in Tel Aviv, Israel when his friends encouraged him to try acting and he began appearing in small shows. When he returned to the United States, he met acting coach Jeff Corey with connections from his father's dental career and began studying acting. == Career == === Acting === Yulin made his New York debut in 1963 in Next Time I'll Sing to You by James Saunders and continued to work frequently in theater throughout his career. His Broadway debut came in the 1980s Watch on the Rhine.
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